Taxi Driver Movie Quotes

Hailed as one of the greatest American movies, Taxi Driver (1976) is about mentally unstable Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), a Vietnam war veteran working as a taxi driver in Manhattan, who becomes a vigilante against social injustice after a chance encounter with a little girl Iris (Jodie Foster) who is forced into prostitution. Check out the best quotes and lines from the 1976 Martin Scorsese classic Taxi Driver, starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks and Harvey Keitel among others.

You talkin' to me?Well I'm the only one here.
~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

Taxi Driver (1976) Movie Quotes: By Travis Bickle

I'm waiting for the sun to shine.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

You're only as healthy as you feel.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? You talkin' to me? Then who the hell else are you talking... you talking to me? Well I'm the only one here. ~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

I'll work anytime, anywhere.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

You're a young girl, you should be at home. You should be dressed up, going out with boys, going to school, you know, that kind of stuff.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

The idea had been growing in my brain for some time: TRUE force. All the king's men cannot put it back together again.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

I should get one of those signs that says "One of these days I'm gonna get organezized".~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

The days go on and on... they don't end. All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don't believe that one should devote his life to morbid self-attention, I believe that one should become a person like other people.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

June twenty-ninth. I gotta get in shape. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on there will be 50 pushups each morning, 50 pullups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

Now I see this clearly. My whole life is pointed in one direction. There never has been a choice for me.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

I... I just want to work long hours. What's moonlighting?~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

Let me tell you something. You're in a hell, and you're gonna die in a hell, just like the rest of 'em!~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

I realize now how much she's just like the others, cold and distant, and many people are like that, women for sure, they're like a union.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

Each night when I return the cab to the garage, I have to clean the cum off the back seat. Some nights, I clean off the blood.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep. Damn. Days go on and on. They don't end.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

I think you're a lonely person. I drive by this place a lot and I see you here. I see a lot of people around you. And I see all these phones and all this stuff on your desk. It means nothing. Then when I came inside and I met you, I saw in your eyes and I saw the way you carried yourself that you're not a happy person. And I think you need something. And if you want to call it a friend, you can call it a friend.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man... June 8th. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

Well, I ride around nights mostly... subways, buses... I figure, you know, if I'm gonna do that I might as well get paid for it.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

Listen, you...screwheads. Here is a man who would not take it anymore. A man who stood up against the scum, the cunts, the dogs, the filth, the shit. Here is a man who stood up.~ Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver (1976).

Taxi Driver (1976) Movie Quotes: By Wizard

Hey Travis, this here's Doughboy. We call him that 'cause he'll do anything for a buck.~ Wizard, Taxi Driver (1976).

You get a job. You become the job.~ Wizard, Taxi Driver (1976).

A man takes a job, you know? And that job - I mean, like that - That becomes what he is. You know, like - You do a thing and that's what you are. Like I've been a cabbie for thirteen years. Ten years at night. I still don't own my own cab. You know why? Because I don't want to. That must be what I want. To be on the night shift drivin' somebody else's cab.~ Wizard, Taxi Driver (1976).

Taxi Driver (1976) Movie Quotes: By Iris

I think that... that Cancers make the best lovers.~ Iris, Taxi Driver (1976).

Didn't you ever hear of women's lib?~ Iris, Taxi Driver (1976).

Taxi Driver (1976) Movie Quotes: By Betsy

I wouldn't be here if I didn't.~ Betsy, Taxi Driver (1976).

You know what you remind me of...That song by Kris Kristofferson...A songwriter. 'He's a prophet... he's a prophet and a pusher, partly truth, partly fiction. A walking contradiction.'~ Betsy, Taxi Driver (1976).

Taxi Driver (1976) Movie Quotes: By Sport

Ah, baby, I don't want you to like what you're doing. If you like what you're doing, then you won't be my woman.~ Sport, Taxi Driver (1976).

It's a real monster. It'll stop a car at a hundred yards. Put a round right through the engine block.~ Andy, Gun Salesman, Taxi Driver (1976).

Sometimes, I like to hold a midget.~ Doughboy, Taxi Driver (1976).

You see that window with the light? The one closet to the edge of the building? you know who lives there? Of course you don't know who lives there, but I'm saying "Do you know who lives there?" A Nigger lives there, and that isn't my apartment. My wife is in there and... I'm gonna kill her...I'm gonna kill her with a .44 Magnum.~ Passenger, Taxi Driver (1976).

We meet at a crossroads in history. No longer will the wrong roads be taken.~ Senator Charles Palantine, Taxi Driver (1976).